A woman was found shot to death in a car late in the morning, before lunch. Po-po show up and do their crime scene thing, and later in the day a news crew from a local cable news channel is there doing their standup bit...you know, reporter talking to the camera saying something like "Police say the suspect is still at large," or whatever, when the suspect stops being at large and starts being right there.
For whatever reason, dude returned to the scene of the earlier shooting, shot at the news crew, killing the reporter and critically injuring the photographer, and then ducked into a nearby house and shot a mother and child, killing the little girl.
Cops arrested the suspect, who looks like a real pillar of the community.
This is 19-year-old Keith Melvin Moses, the suspect in a series of shootings today that left three dead, in OCSO custody. This is a sad day for our community. Three were murdered today, including a woman in her 20s, a 9-year-old girl and a @MyNews13 employee. pic.twitter.com/DXXkxzRHl5
— Orange County Sheriff's Office (@OrangeCoSheriff) February 23, 2023
A reporter getting shot doing a routine standup after the crime scene tape has been rolled up and the scene long cleared is going to hit really close to the metaphorical flagpole in newsrooms across the country, so this is going to get understandably outsized coverage.
Plus it's just a really weird crime, period.
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